growstuff, my husband, also Russell group, has taught all the way through lockdown via zoom (sorry, no, the other one...?? - might be called Teams?).
He taught all through Easter including weekends with only the statutory days off. He said that without that support, many students, especially his 3rd years, would be given the grades they had been working at, but would not have the opportunity of the "exit boost" that some push themselves to achieve. He felt it it was important to give them all the same opportunityto shine as students have in more normal times. Maybe he and his colleagues are the exception rather than the rule, but the sheer exhaustion of teaching full time online (including practical things) was instrumental in him just now retiring ahead of time.
He is grateful to be out.
His university has told staff they will be expected to teach or be available to students till 9pm. They will also have to teach/be available on a Saturday. The students are supposed to have one in every three hours "face to face" and the rest online. Every lecture will apparently be recorded but offered to students to watch in real time. I don't know why they are recording them.
I think every university will be finding it's own way through.
I'm sure your son will have an on-line schedule soon.
I hope it works out ok for him in the end. Good luck.
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